Capcom's next-gen sequel is the first in series to reach the All Formats No.1.
In a busy week of new releases, it's Capcom who can celebrate most readily with the latest in the Devil May Cry series entering at No.1. The first game in the series to release on the Xbox as well as the PlayStation seems to have benefited, taking the series to No.1 for the first time. Although new to the Xbox 360 platform, the console took a 61% share of DMC4 sales.
The new release of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games for Nintendo DS saw the combined sales of the game jump by 85% and climb two places to No.2. In third place is the re-imagining of the Turok franchise, which pushes EA's Burnout Paradise down to No.4.
The one new release we weren't expecting to be riding so high is PDC World Championship Darts 08, which thanks to the massive sales of the Wii version (No.2 in the Wii chart) places at No.6.
Other new entries come in the shape of SEGA's The Club at No.9, Eidos' Conflict: Denied Ops at No.11 and Nintendo's latest brain trainer, Professor Kageyama's Maths Training at No.16.
Although nothing on the same scale as DMC4 is hitting stores on Friday, we do expect strong entries for Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, Cooking Mama 2, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements and Battalion Wars 2.
Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C)2001 ELSPA Ltd
Entertainment Software (All Prices) Week 6, 2008
1: DEVIL MAY CRY 4
2: MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES
3: TUROK
4: BURNOUT PARADISE
5: WII PLAY
6: PDC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP DARTS 08
7: CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE
8: DR KAWASHIMA'S BRAIN TRAINING
9: THE CLUB
10: FIFA 08
11: CONFLICT: DENIED OPS
12: MORE BRAIN TRAINING FROM DR KAWASHIMA
13: THE SIMPSONS GAME
14: CARNIVAL: FUNFAIR GAMES
15: ASSASSIN'S CREED
16: PROFESSOR KAGEYAMA'S MATHS TRAINING
17: WWE SMACKDOWN VS RAW 2008
18: NEED FOR SPEED: PROSTREET
19: PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2008
20: NEW SUPER MARIO BROS.
NinetiesKid wrote at 10:35 on 12 February 2008
Hehe it paid off for Capcom to put DMC4 on the 360 aswell then ;)
Machetazo wrote at 11:57 on 12 February 2008
Platform biased advertising - hurrah?
Well, yeah, there was definitely some sort of pay off!
This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5b-N4i8Tog is the ad that was on telly, here in the UK.
This, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWVLYQHqY5o on the other hand is an identical ad in terms of content (with the exception of the white "SRP £39.99" pricing caption in the bottom right corner - further alluding to the difference in price) that features both platform's boxes at the end, and doesn't have the prominent Xbox 360 logo closing splash.